We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives. — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
'Once' constantly surprises me. I think it's the power of the music and the storytelling that people connect with. — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
Every masculine hero narrative I could find I wanted to steal for myself and twist to my size. — Christine and the Queens Copy Share Image
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic. — Rob Liefeld Copy Share Image
The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Folk tales are the most authentic way of understanding a region, its legend and people. — Shweta Basu Prasad Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because I think that behind fairy tales, there is always a meaning. — Monica Bellucci Copy Share Image
“Greater skill is needed to create a myth than it is to awkwardly present the truth subjectively, or raw form. It doesn't… — VD Copy Share Image
Things have character. So I'm interested in how the character of the thing might function as a protagonist in what isn't a… — Jessica Stockholder Copy Share Image
I've always been a happy-go-lucky person. I haven't got any dark tales, I didn't draw on my own past, I'm from a… — Vicky McClure Copy Share Image
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
[I have a] way of making narrative sculpture, where first you make a text and out of that text you make objects.… — Matthew Barney Copy Share Image
Storytelling sticks in the mind because it attaches emotions to events, and that's the way we remember things. If you don't tell… — Nick Morgan Copy Share Image
“Without people hurting one another, there’s no such thing as story. There’s no such thing as history. The entire record of human… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
There's a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It's like putting on your mask. There's an element of… — Phillipa Soo Copy Share Image
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
The store of fairy tales, that blue chamber where stories lie waiting to be rediscovered, holds out the promise of just those… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
We have to make myths of our lives, the point being that if we do, then every grief or inexplicable seizure by… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Francie always remembered what that kind teacher told her. “You know, Francie, a lot of people would think that these stories that… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“. . .because we had survived sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, we discovered bones that rose from the dark earth and… — Lisel Mueller Copy Share Image
“I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is a universal human… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Sharona Muir has written a gripping personal memoir about her odyssey to rediscover and reclaim her father. Along the way she uncovers… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
When we haven't the time to listen to each other's stories we seek out experts to tell us how to live. The… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
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